PREFACE. RENEWED thankfulness for success hitherto vouchsafed, is coupled with increased urgency of entreaty that our work may be kept prayerfully in mind by all our friends, and the Lord's especial grace supplicated on our behalf. The innumerable subdivisions of erring paths, continually multiplying, renders it more difficult to escape ever turning to the right hand or to the left, in a course where, being a public one, there is necessarily much jostling, and each one is tempted to lie in wait for an occasion of representing a rival as halting or straying. aspect of the times holds out no hope of better things, but rather warns us of increasing perplexity. O that our way be made so direct that we may keep all the Lord's statutes, alway, and unto the end! The In nothing are we, as a Christian community, now so much endangered as by the progress among us of a |